ABOUT ME

Engaged as PhD Candidate in Artificial Intelligence/Deep Learning areas,

having years of prior experience in Computer Vision/Signal Processing/
software R&D, with Operations Management. After starting PhD work he
was involved in data science, machine learning, Deep Learning and NLP, I
served as key position of Director on multiple boards, and he is also
engaged as visiting faculty member in multiple universities. Also building a
better AI community in Pakistan, through foreign relationships or partners

WORK EXPERIENCE
Adnan
01/01/2020 – CURRENT – Karachi, Pakistan
Zaidi
Chief AI Officer (CAIO)
Date of birth: 06/01/1977 Proxima AI
Nationality: Pakistani Responsible for choosing technologies and related guide map for
improvement, testing, and deployment of AI models, as well as to
Gender: Male distinguish AI tasks of high business impact including both product
projects related ventures, and research projects, with prime
importance of data scientists for building the models for local and
international solutions. Current Projects are:

CONTACT Information and communication / adnan@proxima.pk / https://

www.proxima.pk / Karachi, Pakistan
 BR-117, BOSTAN-E-RAZA,,
MODEL COLONY, MALIR, 01/06/2020 – CURRENT – Karachi, Pakistan
75080 Karachi, Pakistan Head of Department
ROOM#007, ILTP Building 2, Extreme Commerce College (PEARSON)
ICCBS, University of Karachi Responsible for managing faculty and follow-up with PEARSON for
75050 Karachi, Pakistan HNC and HND Computing domains. Also taking care of LRN
Foundation batches for IT and Computing. Also affiliated with BCS
(British Computing Society) for Emerging Technologies certifications.
 adnanz_2002@yahoo.com
Computer Science / Education / adnan@ecmcc.org / https://
 (+92) 345125556 www.ecc.org / 172 S, Shams Center, PECHS, Block 2, Karachi,
Pakistan
(+92) 3333314434 https://www.ecc.edu.pk/

01/01/2010 – 31/12/2019 – Karachi, Pakistan

Technical director
MEDIA MONITORS, Media Info Systems Pvt. Ltd.
working as Director Technical to manage Research & Development,
System Analyst, and Strategic Management of 24x7 Operations for
125+ Employees. We built state of art technology for Media Industry by
producing advertisement research data for Television, Radio, Print and
Outdoor. Vision-based open-source technologies to bundle up
complete solutions and services for clients, and later produced data is
transformed into analytical dashboards.

01/01/2016 – 31/12/2019 – Karachi, Pakistan

Independent Director
Dost Steels Ltd
Looking after IT and Support department, in terms of procurement,
vendors, supplies etc required for running and maintaining steel plant.
Also working on the strategic decisions with research support.

01/01/2013 – 31/12/2017 – Karachi, Pakistan

 Director
Crescent Star Insurance Limited
Supporting board with better decisions for adopting technological
changes to grow business, in terms of Insurance software, as well as
proving support of data analysis

01/03/2003 – 31/08/2009 – Karachi, Pakistan

General Manager Operations & Research
MEDIABANK, Media Innovations Pvt. Ltd
Responsible for R&D and Operations management, for R&D dealing
with Image, Audio data processing, with Semi-Automated system for
TV, Radio Advertisement mainly.

01/02/2001 – 31/12/2002 – Karachi, Pakistan

Web developers
HV Webmaster
Handling web back-end development, using PHP, PEARL, CGI scripting,
and multiple database engines.

01/01/2001 – 28/01/2002 – Karachi, Pakistan

Head of academic department
Saifee College of Computer Science
Responsible for all institution activities, including faculty management,
IT Department and external affiliation matters.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

01/09/2017 – CURRENT – Lal Kothi Bus Stop, Main Shahrah-e-
Faisal, 22-E, Block-6, PECHS, Karachi, Pakistan
PhD (Machine Learning)
Muhammad Ali Jinnah University (MAJU)
https://www.jinnah.edu

01/01/2002 – 31/12/2004 – SZABIST 99, 100, 153, 154 and F79،,

3rd Ave, Block 5 Clifton, Karachi, Pakistan
MS (Computer Science)
Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and
Technology (SZABIST)
https://www.szabist.edu.pk/

01/01/1997 – 31/12/2000 – KU, Circular Road, University Of

Karachi,, Karachi, Pakistan
BS (Computer Science)
UBIT, University of Karachi
https://uok.edu.pk/faculties/computerscience/ubit.php
LANGUAGE SKILLS
MOTHER TONGUE(S): Urdu
OTHER LANGUAGE(S):
ENGLISH

Listening Reading Spoken Spoken Writing

C1 C1 production interaction C1
B1 B2

DIGITAL SKILLS
Python / Keras / Tessorflow / Scikit Learn / Pandas / Matplotlib /
Seaborn / OpenCV / PyAudio / Machine Learning / Deep Learning /
Data Science / Data Analytics

VOLUNTEERING
01/05/2019 – CURRENT
Co-organizer (Kaggle Expert)
Pakistan (all Cities)
Building better Data Science Community in Pakistan; by creating
awareness among Universities/Institutes etc. The overall objective is to
bring Pakistan at top ranking in World Largest Data Science
Community through Kaggle. As Ambassador, responsible for
organizing local and national events, with local data science partners
https://www.meetup.com/Kaggle-Days-Meetups-Pakistan/

01/01/2020 – CURRENT
Ambassador (deeplearning.ai)
Pakistan (all Cities)
As part of Andrew NG deeplearning.ai community! (in Pakistan). We’re
a global, diverse network of deep learners passionate about learning
and building AI. Our meetup series, Pie & AI, typically includes
conversations with AI leaders, thought-provoking discussions,
networking opportunities, hands-on project practice, and pie, here we
build teams at City Level with Academia.
01/01/2022
Ambassador (WiDS STANFORD)
Pakistan (all Cities)
WiDS Ambassadors plan an event in their area that coincides with the
Women in Data Science (WiDS) Worldwide Conference. They are in
their regions supporting women who are currently ​in the field and ​
inspiring other women to become data scientists
https://www.widsconference.org/ambassadors-2022.html

01/01/2020 – CURRENT
Instructor (NVIDIA DLI)
Karachi
Teaching, Training and Community Building for NVIDIA Certifications.
PUBLICATIONS
Image Denoising with Color Scheme by Using
Autoencoders
2018 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/
334279710_Image_Denoising_with_Color_Scheme_by_Using_Autoenco
ders
IJCSNS International Journal of Computer Science and Network
Security, VOL.18 No.12, December 2018
Image denoising autoencoder is a classical issue in the field of digital
image processing where compression and decompression functions
are lossy and data specific. In this paper, we use the autoencoder
technique on RGB (Red, Green and Blue) color scheme dataset, we
added Gaussian noise on CIFER-10 dataset and then encoded by using
a 2D convolutional neural network. Similarly, we decode noisy datasets
to train our model. After training, the proposed method can learn
denoising data and returns effective results. (PDF) Image Denoising
with Color Scheme by Using Autoencoders.

Facial Expression Recognition with Histogram of

Oriented Gradients using CNN
2019 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/
334548978_Facial_Expression_Recognition_with_Histogram_of_Oriente
d_Gradients_using_CNN
Indian Journal of Science & Technology, Vol 12(24), DOI: 10.17485/ijst/
2019/v12i24/145093, June 20
Objectives: A new method is introduced in this study for Facial
expression recognition using FER2013 database consisting seven
classes consisting (Surprise, Fear, Angry, Neutral, Sad, Disgust, Happy)
in past few decades, Exploration of methods to recognize facial
expressions have been active research area and many applications
have been developed for feature extraction and inference. However, it
is still challenging due to the high-intra class variation. Methods/
Statistical Analysis: we deeply analyzed the accuracy of both
handcrafted and leaned aspects such as HOG. This study proposed
two models; (1) FER using Deep Convolutional Neural Network (FER-
CNN) and (2) Histogram of oriented Gradients based Deep
Convolutional Neural Network (FER-HOGCNN). the training and testing
accuracy of FER-CNN model set 98%, 72%, similarly Losses were 0.02,
2.02 respectively. On the other side, the training and testing accuracy
of FER-HOGCNN model set 97%, 70%, similarly Losses were 0.04, 2.04.
Findings: It has been found that the accuracy of FER-HOGCNN model is
good overall but comparatively not better than Simple FER-CNN. In
dataset the quality of images are low and small dimensions, for that
reason, the HOG loses some important features during training and
testing. Application/Improvements: The study helps for improving the
FER System in image processing and furthermore, this work shall be
extended in future, and order to extract the important features from
images by combining LBP and HOG operator using Deep Learning
models.
https://indjst.org/articles/facial-expression-recognition-with-histogram-
of-oriented-gradients-using-cnn

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF FAKE SOCIAL

MEDIACONTENT BASED ON DEEP LEARNING METHODS
2022 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/
360916134_PERFORMANCE_ANALYSIS_OF_FAKE_SOCIAL_MEDIACONTE
NT_BASED_ON_DEEP_LEARNING_METHODS
Jilin Daxue Xuebao (Gongxueban)/Journal of Jilin University
(Engineering and Technology Edition)
Nowadays, social media platform has enhanced tremendously in the
last few years and considered one of major source of for information
seeking and sharing in low cost. Due to the growth of data, The Fake
news are quickly dominating and spreading the information, and
distorting the community for sharing their own thoughts, knowledge
and point of view regarding towards to any topic. In this paper,
structural features with updated RNN and LSTM methods are
proposed to improve the performance of system on fake news data.
The system uses attention layer with RNN and LSTM to update the
weights and values of different features. The performance of model
also compared with various hyper parameters such activation,
 optimization, and dropout. The Proposed Model based with Long
Short Term Memory (LSTM) categorize the features closer on original
and fake news with customized hyper parameters and random search.
The experimental results also depicted that deep learning methods
outperformed when size of data samples is high. Furthermore, we
showed that combining strong feature engineering with deep learning
models, we can more concisely identify the fake news with state-of-art
results.
https://osf.io/5ruh2/

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

01/02/2019 > – Karachi
Conference: International Conference on Data Science
Classifying text in Urdu is very challenging task, especially when we
have multiple classes to implement in multiple machine learning
algorithms. In this paper, we are actively scraping Urdu news heading
from news agencies including BBC Urdu and Urdupoint. Our corpus
contains 141289 new words of eight categories with Armed forces,
International, Entertainment, Education, Accident, Local, Sports, and
Weather. The machine learning algorithms were not able to work
directly on the data, so we applied the preprocessing techniques like
stop words removal and a feature vector. Our model classify text into
multiple category and after comparing different machine learning
algorithms, Ridge Classifier is the best predictor and we achieved up to
87% accuracy.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/
331889811_Urdu_News_Headline_Text_Classification_by_Using_Differe
nt_Machine_Learning_Algorithms

01/01/2018 > – Islamabad

Pak AI Summit
Managing and supporting building better industry-academia bridges
and promoting startups. The purpose of the PAK AI summit is to create
better awareness and networking of relevant people locally as well as
internationally.
https://pakaisummit.com/

HONOURS AND AWARDS

01/06/2005
First Position – APICTA
For Media Category, the secure first position in APICT 2005, competing
all Asia Pacific Countries.
2015
Certified Director – ICAP
SECP Approved and Certified Director for Private and Public Limited
companies.